Saturday, February 03, 2007

Week From Heck

I had an all-day kids' chess tournament which kept me away from April's Real Blog today. Sorry, fellow ARBers.

This week on For Better or For Worse has been very trying. The fans got a real taste of Lynn Johnston telegraphing the plot and seemingly not caring whether the execution had any basis in the real world or not. It was possibly the first week where I was glad the Sunday colour strip had arrived to take the pressure off the relentlessness of the daily strip plotting. I fear it is going to be like this for the rest of the way out.

If you think about it, from February to September is 8 months with 4 weeks of strips, where each plotline being touched runs 2-3 weeks. 32 weeks of strips / 3 weeks of strips = 10 2/3 plots. Lynn Johnston has the following things to cover in that time:

1. Elly and John buy the teeny, tiny train house and swap stories with the current owner who is even older than they are.
2. Liz moves into an apartment.
3. Elly and John sell their current house to Mike and Deanna, thanks to his bonus and a ton of extra money Deanna is getting (mentioned in her February monthly letter).
4. Elly, John and April move into the teeny, tiny train house.
5. Another summer visit with the Western Pattersons for April.
6. Anthony and Elizabeth go to Howard's trial and hear the verdict and declare for each other.
7. Warren Blackwood appears and is rebuffed again by Liz, who declares she is too much of a home body to ever move anywhere.
8. Anthony proposes and Liz accepts.
9. Therese gets dissed in front of Liz and Frannie.
10. Liz and Anthony wedding preparation, which means reintroducing all the characters we have not seen since the beginning of time.
11. Liz and Anthony wedding.
12. Mira Sobinski told off for the last time.

There's 12 for you. I think we can expect scripting rushed for time for the next 8 months.

1 Comments:

Blogger howard said...

Nobody loves me.
Everybody hates me.
Guess I'll eat some worms.

9:51 PM  

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